Human behavioural ecology (HBE) can be defined as the evolutionary ecology of human behaviour. Its central focus is how the behaviour of modern humans reflects our species’ history of natural selection. The field has grown rapidly over the last twenty years, in anthropology and other social and behavioural sciences. It passes under many names, including Darwinian (or evolutionary) anthropology,...

FRANK P. CUOZZO*, BRIAN R. HEAD, MICHELLE L. SAUTHER, PETER S. UNGAR, AND M. TEAGUE O’MARA Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas Department of Biology & Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germa...

Proximate and ultimate determinants of cathemeral activity in brown lemurs Giuseppe Donati *, Nicoletta Baldi , Valentina Morelli , Jörg U. Ganzhorn , Silvana M. Borgognini-Tarli b,1 Nocturnal Primate Research Group, Department of Anthropology and Geography, Oxford Brookes University Department of Biology, Unit of Anthropology, University of Pisa Biozentrum Grindel, Department of Animal Ecology...

1EnviroSPACE laboratory, Climate Change and Climate Impacts, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland. 2Laboratory of anthropology, genetics and peopling history, Department of Anthropology, University of Geneva, Switzerland. 3Computational and Molecular Population Genetics Lab, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Berne, Switzerland 4Swiss Institute ...

The Journal of Ecological Anthropology (JEA) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary forum for innovative exploration the interface between humans and their sociocultural biophysical environments. Subject areas include, but are not limited to, historical ecology, anthropology development conservation, evolution human ecosystems, indigenous local knowledge, ethnoecology, ecology health, wellness, n...

We describe the need to further integrate the fields of human microbial ecology and anthropology and outline some of the potential goals and benefits of this collaborative work.